"Randolph's career is a historical footnote, but the author's close examination of his father's complex relationship with Winston Churchill, augmented with excerpts from their voluminous correspondence, make this a valuable contribution to Churchill scholarship."

A "filial and objective" biography of Winston S. Churchill's only son, Randolph, by Randolph's son.
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"Memorable history, vividly written, intensely personal in projection and execution, this is again an exciting publishing event."

The span of time from 1688 to 1815, covered in this third volume, compassed three major revolutions,- revolutions in a political and military sense, but revolutions, too, that profoundly affected mankind.
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Nothing available in advance of finished books (as noted on P. 674) so this report is anticlimactic in view of the extensive reviews already released, which seem collectively to say what we were saying anyhow.
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"While this is not such easy reading as the two earlier volumes, there is an enormous amount of thrilling contemporary history encompassed in this period of victory beginning to seem possible out of disaster and defeat."

Third in the four volume history of the war, and the one most intimately concerned with strategy and Britain's terrific responsibility in carrying on virtual global warfare single handed.
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"It lacks — however — the spark that distinguishes Churchill's more public utterances."

Life Magazine published three of these speeches made in secret sessions of Parliament, — The Battle of the Atlantic, The Fall of Singapore, Darlan and the North African Landings — and good publicity cleared the newsstands of the issues almost as they came from the press-evidence of the lively interest in what the Prime Minister has said.
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"There are the usual assortment of long speeches and short, of messages, statements, answers, etc. Only too fast the public forgets- and the market for these papers is shrinking."

There are the 1945 speeches, from January through his defeat in the general election, a collection which covers a vital seven months in a fast changing world, months in which President Roosevelt died and Germany capitulated.
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Once again Winston Churchill proves that the power of his words lies in the spirit of the man behind the words, and that they read as well as they sound — a second time as well as a first.
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